Hacker News: progfix

New comment by progfix in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

progfix — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:28:31 +0000

What do you mean exactly with censorship?

New comment by progfix in "Differential Growth Addon for Blender"

progfix — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:23:13 +0000

Jason Webbs blog post (which is linked in the github ReadMe) explains the math really well.

New comment by progfix in "LibrePythonista allows running IPython code in a LibreOffice spreadsheet"

progfix — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:21:15 +0000

The design looks very much AI generated.

New comment by progfix in "Orca: WebAssembly Apps Without the Web"

progfix — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:49:37 +0000

Can you run JVM or CLR apps in the browser?

New comment by progfix in "Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown"

progfix — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:40:04 +0000

Then give buyers the ability to make their own servers.

New comment by progfix in "Show HN: Color Picker – tool for extracting colors from images"

progfix — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:10:47 +0000

*Designed and Developed by Rayid

New comment by progfix in "Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town"

progfix — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 05:52:17 +0000

Civil engineering in general is more advanced in Europe. The oil crisis in the 1970 and the subsequent use of thermal insulation made "Bauphysik" (building physics) an integral part of the planing process. In the US you just rely on more heating/cooling power instead.

Just as an example: >=16cm thermal insulation + heat pump or solar thermal energy + double or triple pane windows have been standard for new single family homes since at least 2005 in Austria.

New comment by progfix in "The underground world of hobby tunneling"

progfix — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:13:08 +0000

Building regulations exist for thousand of years and for good reasons ...

lol

New comment by progfix in "2023 Word of the Year is "enshittification""

progfix — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:03:51 +0000

"en" =/= "ent"

New comment by progfix in "Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing (2021)"

progfix — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 09:10:08 +0000

Those text boxes act like spreadsheet cells - which means you can reference them and use their data in other boxes.

New comment by progfix in "My personal C coding style as of late 2023"

progfix — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 05:06:46 +0000

Usually if it is too costly, then you pass it via a pointer.

New comment by progfix in "Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries"

progfix — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:36:10 +0000

Microsoft thinks this is okay because Google did the same thing with Chrome on the Google start page.

I remember a coworker asking me what Chrome is, because "his computer" keeps telling him to install it.

New comment by progfix in "Show HN: Hacker News for AI News"

progfix — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 19:00:30 +0000

I would like a hacker news without AI news :)

New comment by progfix in "So Long, Twitter and Reddit"

progfix — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:37:04 +0000

You can also follow hashtags which for me is much more interesting than following people.

New comment by progfix in "Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the 's and 's"

progfix — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 09:48:33 +0000

Why don't you send PDFs?

New comment by progfix in "Discovery: Metals can heal themselves"

progfix — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 05:01:45 +0000

You are wrong. I work in the construction industry and the term is commonly used and understood. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-healing_material

New comment by progfix in "Show HN: PDF Differ"

progfix — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:38:40 +0000

The black and white mode doesn't look very useful. Check out how Autodesk is visualising changes. They use three colours: blue=only in first pdf, red=only in second pdf, black=in both pdfs.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/BIM360D/ENU/?guid=GUID-08779B...

New comment by progfix in "/u/spez is right about feudalism and that's why Reddit is doomed"

progfix — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 16:19:59 +0000

Paid mods will work for the big subreddits, but what about all the smaller ones. Will paid mods have the knowledge or passion to run a subreddit for a niche topic? To promote them or keep them interesting?

New comment by progfix in "The problem with federated web apps"

progfix — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 11:53:22 +0000

After a quick internet search I found some straight forward tutorials about moving instances.

So you don't loose followers/follows but can't move posts (but they are kept alive as long as the old instance is active). That is IMO not that bad at all.

Maybe it is just a matter of time we get full account moving, I don't see why that would be technically impossible to do.

New comment by progfix in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

progfix — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:59:57 +0000

Did you forget that newspapers exist?